Word: ironic
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...figures are considerably lower and, says the agency, are a better barometer of the typical American's nutritional needs. Essentially they reflect the requirements of adult women. The agency has proposed slashing the RDAs for many vitamins, including A, B, C and E, as well as nutrients such as iron, by 10% to 80%. The < RDA would also acquire a new name: the Reference Daily Intake, or RDI. (On food labels the RDI would be listed as the Daily Value, or DV.) "By using the old RDAs, you're trying to make the entire population consume more nutrients than...
...well-financed organization with 30,000 followers in Brooklyn and at least 100,000 worldwide, the expectation of the Messiah's coming has been building since Schneerson in the past few years began exhorting his disciples more and more to actively prepare for the day. The crumbling of the Iron Curtain and the Soviet Union's demise, explains Habad spokesman Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, "lead one to think that these extraordinary, shattering events are a precursor to something even more cataclysmic...
...with Boys' Life, a Mametian glimpse of postadolescent rituals of drinking, puking, courting and infidelity. In Search and Destroy, now on Broadway, he looks at men his own age who have achieved material success but feel an inner hollowness. They seek cures ranging from ritual maleness a la Iron John to shedding their ties and common sense in reckless crusades for adventure. The central character, played by film actor Griffin Dunne, reacts to a busted marriage and a Florida income tax problem by turning to a trio of cliche badass pursuits: cross-country wandering (the show's sole...
...Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, argue that the United States is too poor and too unworthy to play a major world role. Some Republicans, abandoning the tradition of enlightened foreign policy stretching from Eisenhower through Bush, call for a new isolationism. Both fail to see the iron link between the U.S. leadership and our twin goals of peace abroad and prosperity at home...
CERTAINLY JEWS are not the only group in Syria oppressed by Assad's iron fist. Thousands of political prisoners are held without trial, some languishing in their cells for over 20 years. A 1987 Amnesty International report identified 35 forms of torture used in Syrian prisons--cruelty that knows no sectarian or religious boundaries...